La Chimera
Presented by: Lucem House Community Cinema Plus+ St Helens.| 0 | ST HELENS: Community Cinema Plus (info) |
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| P | Friday 14th March, 2025 |
| N | Door time: 7:00pm Start time: 7:30pm |
| . | Film: 15 |
| C | Film |
Event information
Newly released from prison for his crimes, a thief returns home to pull off the big job that will finally make him and his friends rich.
‘La Chimera’ meaning "The Impossible Dream" is a 2023 period drama film written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher (The Wonders and Happy as Lazzaro). The film stars Josh O'Connor as a British looter who gets involved in an international network of stolen Etruscan artifacts during the 1980s
The film explores themes of our relationship with the past, supernatural elements, and the blurred lines between reality, myth, and dreams. At the heart of “La Chimera” is the question of how we bear the weight of the past while living in the present.
Critics like to call Rohrwacher's films fables, and in La chimera, the filmmaker borrows from the ancient tale of Orpheus and Eurydice: a thwarted union, a lost girl, a hero entering the underworld to find her, her mother egging him on.
La chimera was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. It received 13 nominations at the 69th David di Donatello awards. The film received positive reviews from critics, being named one of the top 5 international films of 2023 by the National Board of Review
